The best Real Tennis you will ever watch (Compilation)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มี.ค. 2017
- Real Tennis, often called "Court Tennnis" or the "Game of Kings" is the original racquet sport from which modern day tennis is derived. The game is still played enthusiastically on 43 or so remaining courts worldwide. The footage is taken from Day 2 of the 2016 World Championship, where Rob - the defending world champion needed to put his mark on a match which was rapidly slipping away from him. What happens next needs to be seen to be believed!
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I started with reading the declaration of independence, and Wikipedia links got me here.
I should get off the toilet.
And I’m on the toilet watching this now lmao. But fax this is how the toilet search rabbit hole usually goes down 😂. Even tho it wasn’t that for me today but just curious of the sport
its kind of where it belongs, it was an elitist "sport" , when it began, and it still is
This is my favorite TH-cam comment ever.
Because we can all relate.
I'd read about real tennis, but watching it is fucking bananas. The instant recognition of the angles and reaction times of the players is amazing to watch.
Five minutes ago I had never even heard of this sport. Looks incredibly dynamic. I’m surprised it’s not more popular today. Like a mix of tennis and racquetball.
It's not popular because of the logistics, you can't build that room anywhere. That's why tennis replaced it back when it was invented, way easier, you could just play outside with no walls.
There's only 10 courts in America
@@TheJoy___
Lawn tennis is a different sport and it don't resemble with real tennis the sport which resemble it are padel,pop tennis,platform tennis unlike lawn tennis in terms of similarity pickleball and soft tennis can rival it
It's basically squash
Just learned of this game's existence today. Found it by looking up "the sport of kings": this is one of them. Fascinating piece of living history.
I could swear I saw this on TV when I was a kid in the 1970s. I can't say if it was on regularly. But I think more than a couple of times. Maybe it was something covered by "Wide World of Sports"
I do not understand this game, but this is beautiful play.
Great comment, give the game a try! There is a tutorial how to play here: th-cam.com/video/1NdujcsyjLs/w-d-xo.html
A mixture of squash and tennis
It’s tennis but ultra ultra waspy
800 years old. The court is designed based on the city center, city walls and the shops around it. Hence the windows and slopes around the sides. There is a service side and receiving side. So they change sides to serve. Hitting the big windows in the back is a point. Hitting the small windows in the corner is a point. The only out is the ceiling or top windows. Serves must be off the slopes.
Thanks to Tom Scott and the Technical Difficulties for bringing this up. I hope to see the Windy City Open, sometime. :)
Love and play the sport proudly
note too that this kind of ... "place" is still existing in the south west of France and Spain ( or south america i am quite sure ( like Jai alai))
but we practice a sport called pelote and this place is called a " trinquet" :)
Of what i know, this " real tennis" is "jeu de Paume" and was introduced in the US a the early XXth or end of the XIXth ?? ( at a time Paris was changing a lot, turning to " city of lights") when a rich american helped some frenchies to move their club of " jeu de paume" .from one place to another. today remains this club in Paris (16). :)
It seems incredibly unfair for one side to have that corner wall for the guy to attack xDDD and the two walls are not identical either
The idea is you win the serve by laying a chase (getting the ball to bounce twice on the serving side) and then you get to use that nasty corner! If you are very fast and have the right serve you can keep the good end of the court for a long time
800 years old. The court is designed based on the city center, city walls and the shops around it. Hence the windows and slopes around the sides. There is a service side and receiving side. So they change sides to serve. Hitting the big windows in the back is a point. Hitting the small windows in the corner is a point. The only out is the ceiling or top windows. Serves must be off the slopes.
really ancient tennis
The game Padel Tennis seems to be a modern rendition of real tennis !1
I agree, most modern iterations of tennis would have evolved from this game :)
Such a complicated sport
I feel like this sport has birth two modern sports. Both tennis and squash
True for tennis, but squash is much more ancient in it's core. So you could say that it is the other way around. This medieval game comes from more ancient palm ball games that used a wall or several walls (similar to squash) .
@@AidarAmrekulov okay, that's very interesting. Thanks for the knowledge.
This was actually based on squash - a more ancient sport. And then Tennis developed from this
This is basically Padel (sport played in Spain).
@@AidarAmrekulov Real tennis has been around in this form since the 17th C. Squash came around in the 19th.
" jeu de paume " 😁
many players still playing in that kind of place (for so long) ... mainly with no net across : " trinquet" 😄
Was this not the origin for Squash Racket Ball? I think it was.
Better than pickleball
.... note that , comparing dates, Lawn tennis allready raised in UK ( the outdoor " tenez" ?? )but was still a young sport. then it could be the reason why they called it " real tennis " in the US ?? :)
This game shall become instantly popular if the governing body allows the introduction of modern tennis racket and ball to the game.
5:18 The shot that makes the metallic sound - what was that?
Also at 5:47 - this also made a strange sound and a bad bounce.
Are there targets to shoot for?
yes it is. it is called "The grille"
This is SO strange...
What's the idea behind playing with old gear ? Do all courts have the same form (with the pillar etc.)?
Kind of, but they are all slightly different as well, different sizes too. You can see why sensible people gave up on it in favour of actual tennis a long time ago. "Real" tennis reminds me of the "real" IRA: a bunch of entrenched fanatics holding onto something that has long become obsolete, and insisting that everybody else has got it wrong.
Apparently it is from where lawn tennis derives.
My friend brought me to his Squash club in downtown Boston. The place was pretty vacant and my other friend and me wandered into a match. No one else watching except the officials. We both turned around and quietly showed out selves out. It was kinda creepy
lol, I love this story. For whatever reason, real tennis courts and jai-alai courts really skeeze me out. There's something unsettling about that many quietly chattering people gathered around in a very confined and reverberant space watching a gentleman's game.
My knees hurt just watching.
Why? Do you feel that way about basketball?
Get better knees then.
I feel like the person closes to the screen is in a disadvantage because the way the wall is on the left. That indent makes for an easy target for the opponent to just try and hit it. Notice how many times the ball goes right to there. Or is that supposed to be this way?
Yeah, there's some obscure rules deciding when they switch, with some irritating stuff in there like hitting the ball beyond a line called the "1 yard worse than last line ", which is just one of the reasons sensible people adapted the game to an actually playable game.
This is very similar to a sport played a lot in Spain called Padel.
One of the guys is around 50 and the other around 30. Does that make sense?
The guy who's around 50 (Rob Fahey) was world champion for 22 years until he was beaten in 2016. Besides being incredibly good at the game he's extremely fit and strong, which explains why he retained the world championship for so long.
Rob Fahey incredibly held the world title from 1994 to 2016, and at the ripe age of 50 this year he is playing Camden Riviere (the younger player in this video) to challenge for the world championship title once more. The championship is played over 3 days in a "best of 9 sets" format and after day one Camden is leading 3/1 - you can follow the game play on 26th and 28th April on the IRTPA or Queen's club twitter - hopefully there will be some highlights for us to watch too!
@@realtennisfans7317 and indeed the man from Tasmania regained his crown. Well played son!
The game relies more on intelligence than brute force.
I am putting together some of the best clips from the world championship up on my channel, so far done 2 out of the 3 days of the final - feel free to check it out!
What happens if the ball is hit into one of the galleries along the side or far end? The ball would be unreturnable but not due to the fault of the receiving player.
Interesting, apparently if hit them into far back galleries, win the point. Otherwise lose on most all of the side ones (would be too easy anyways I think) www.irtpa.com/the-real-tennis-court/
It’s a bit long to explain but the simple version is: If the server hits it, they can lose the serve. If the receiver hits it then they can win the serve
Apart from the furthest gallery which wins the point for the server
No chance you see this reply but I play this game and I'm a nerd :P
1:10 - Skip to that point in the video and I'll explain from this camera position.
The netted areas are called galleries.
If the person receiving (at the end closest to the camera) hits the ball in to the long gallery behind the server, they win the point.
The galleries on the right hand side on the servers side of the net (the far side). If the server hits the ball in to them, they lose. If the receiver hits in to them they may or may not win the point, depending on whether there is a chase in play and what it is if there is one. The rules of this game are mad if you couldn't tell!
The galleries on the right on the receivers side of the net. If the receiver hits the ball in to them, they lose the point. If the server hits the ball in to one of them they may or may not win the point, again depending on the chase situation which I'm not explaining! The exception to this however is the last gallery, the one closest to the camera. If the server hits the ball in to that, any time other than with their serve, they win the point.
The rules are mad but you get used to them quite quickly once you start playing.
Like, why is there a corner there?
Where was this game played at?
This was at the National Tennis Club in Newport, Rhode Island, one of around just 50 active tennis courts around the world.
Way more fun than tennis
Anyone else brought here by Tom Scott?
Which video?
Different and angular.
Seems like for lawn tennis they just simplified it a lot lol. Less lines.
Do these players make a living doing this and how?
Poor people don't play this game. And by poor I mean "in danger of running out of money somewhere within the next fifteen generations". If your financial situation is that insecure, you're not going to bother with this game. For starters, you wouldn't be allowed to enter the grounds of the estate unless you were the gardener or the gamekeeper.
Fake tennis is a better name
?? it is " jeu de paume " where people were saying " tenez "( hold it) before to serve. now you know that " tennis " come from " tenez "
then : tennis come from fake tennis ??? 🤡
@@antoinev9733 hold this little muffin 🤡🤡🤡
@@allthesame3856 "tennis" please ;)
Interesting sport. Totally new for me. It looks fun but sounds arrogant to call it real tennis. They could have call it classic tennis or original tennis to avoid the snuf connotation.
Fair point - although in the US they simply call it "Court Tennis" or "Paume / Jeu de Paume" in France. It's also been known as Royal Tennis or the Game of Kings due to it's popularity with the monarchs when it was first played in the UK -- so at least it's image has evolved since then :)
Can't please the PC crowd. I'm sure another person would be equally offended by "classic or original tennis"
Am I correct in thinking that both tennis and squash derived from this? It looks like the rules are you can hit it on the full or one bounce?
I'm going to look into this sport more.
Modern day lawn tennis is most certainly evolved from Real Tennis, in fact the original version of the game was simply called "Tennis" before the victorians came along and invested the one played on the lawn! (which is why a rebranding was required).
The rules are similar to lawn tennis in the sense you can volley and hit the ball on the bounce. However the convoluted part is the "chase" system, where if one is at the serving end, they can completely miss the ball - but still win the point by winning the "chase."
This is done by measuring where the missed ball bounced for the second time from the back wall (there are measuring lines on the court every yard from the back), the server then swaps to the receiving end and can still win the point if they can get the ball to to land at a "better" chase, i.e. closer to the back wall than the original chase. The server still has the option to "defend" the chase from being beaten by keeping the ball in play.
Don’t know anything about real tennis but I believe it’s an older game. Should we not then blame “tennis” for hacking the name? Should we have Called it “outdoor tennis” or something?
In Spanish, Real means royal and true/real, so the name of the game probably comes from the royalty and that's why it's called Real Tennis
why on earth is the court asymmetrical? that seems very silly
The "modern" day indoor courts would have been modelled on the medieval courtyards that the game was originally played from, and prior to that monastery cloisters - thus the sloping roofs etc. It does make the game fun to play though!
You could say that about baseball parks also. Not one is symmetrical
Why would it need to be? This is how it evolved (or didn't, maybe), until someone came up with lawn tennis, a different game altogether.
Baseball fields vary, too, in their outfield dimensions and the contours and height of the fence: Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Candlestick Park.
wtf is this? Tennis + Squash?
I mean it could look like a good sport but what's with the uneven wall? Even the slope at the top is only on the middle and one side. Even the person standing at the entrance doesn't a door or glass panel. If this is experimental i think there is alot more polishing to do with the court design.
The other kind of tennis is incredibly boring and humdrum .... but this looks fun
No doubt the weirdos who play this probably watch fencing
this is a sport that could be awesome with real athletes - no offense to these two
These two are the best players in the world. They most definitely are 'real athletes' because pure fitness is only a part of the game - the skill level is immense. Many elite tennis players have tried real tennis and found its skills difficult to master. Also many top real tennis players came from other racket sports where they were junior/national champions, but found the richness of real tennis addictive.
Andrew Shields there is like 5 players known in court tennis... so it’s real easy to be the top 2.
No sport is pure fitness, even weightlifting needs a variety of skills outside of big muscles.
Those might be the smartest and quickest in the world of „real“ tennis, yet they would lose every game to a real player in actual real tennis.
That’s because court tennis is only played by a few former royals or those who’d like to be one. Court tennis basically doesn’t exist outside of the former British commonwealth. That’s about as „real“ of an athlete as my brother when he plays LoL or the Austrians with their Hockern!
Meanwhile actual tennis players have teams, they train daily to become the best players out of a pool of international athletes, competing in a controlled environment.
In the end if they were real athletes, they wouldn’t have to call their sport „real tennis“ just to absorb a little bit of legitimacy off the actual real tennis.
@@mellowbobbin8684 obviously you haven’t played the game enough to understand how difficult it is to return some of the shots these guys are getting. Over 5,000 people play the game world wide and that number rises every year. To be in the top 25 players in this game requires immense time dedication and skill plus years of experience
These are the top 2 players in the entire world and are some of the most athletic people you’ll ever meet
@@mellowbobbin8684 you are quite the hater eh? I guarantee you if you dropped Jokivic in there right now he would get schooled by the old dude. It's the same as golf. A lot of "athletes" think that is an easy game until they try it and look foolish. This game is much more about angles, shot placement and anticipation than it is about pure fitness or power. Chess to Checkers there Champ.
The queen of racquet sports is lawn tennis while the real tennis we see here is nothing more than an ugly ancestor, dynamic exciting but lacking the grace and splendour …
This is a pseudo sport, like something a couple of guys would make up to kill an afternoon. The court is asymmetrical both back to front and side to side. The ball is allowed to bounce as many times as it needs to before it dribbles off the, again, asymmetrical interior awnings. It is fair if they switch sides routinely but it diverges from every other mainstream sport in that its court is . . . asymmetrical, again.
Well it is 800 years old, the courts are similar to the French streets where it was first played
this is fake tennis. impostors
1:07 stupid sport.
Is baseball stupid because players sometimes have to wait below a wall to catch the ball and throw to third base or home plate (that is, unless it landed above the home run mark, in which case it was all for nothing)?
@@ericforsyth yes
@@brianmannion7097: Okay, then I can't think of any sport which isn't.
@@ericforsyth I was busting your balls. No baseball isn't stupid. I just don't like this sport in the video. It just seems lazy. Its like what two kids could come up with to have fun with rackets in some abandoned area. Waiting for the ball to drop from a roof to hit it aimlessly back at the other guy. Real hand eye coordination. A real sport is something like actual tennis or 'GAA' handball. This is stupid.
Tried it and this game is HARD. The rackets are super heavy and are like swinging around a piece of weed you're about to put on a bonfire. The ball is also so heavy and barely bounces, so you have to anticipate moreso than just a split step like you do in tennis. The speed, angles, etc makes this game extremely hard to learn and master.
Far more entertaining then the pathetic trash that passes as “tennis” today. And tennis as a whole is still a shitty and boring game.
So, on point.